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Staff Machine Learning Engineer

$163k - $245k

Indeed

Our Mission

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(*Comscore, Total Visits, March 2025)

Day to Day

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will be a team lead on the Employer Agents Team. Your team will be responsible for driving value and better customer experiences for our employer-facing Agentic solutions, helping redefine the employer hiring journey through AI. You will own one of the team's major workstreams, partner with cross-functional teams to develop and deliver ML and AI projects, including Agentic solutions, LLMs-as-a-Judge, evaluation capabilities, and ML systems and models, and help drive technical direction for the team while guiding other members to achieve product and technical goals. On a daily basis, you will explore data, formulate problem statements, build new agentic experiences, and drive improvements in our LLMOps reliability and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with cross-functional teams to enhance and optimize search algorithms for improved accuracy, relevance, and overall user experience.

  • Experiment with Proof of Concept Machine Learning model improvements, scale them to production, and run iterative A/B experiments to improve our matching technology while partnering with other teams

  • Define and clarify project priorities, deliverables, and success criteria in partnership with cross-functional teams.

  • Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical collaborators, facilitating effective communication and comprehension of project goals and outcomes.

  • Mentor and grow other software engineers and Machine Learning Engineers across teams

  • Break down larger Machine Learning initiatives into pieces that deliver incremental business value and guide the team through implementing them

  • Represent Indeed at major Machine Learning conferences, such as Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), and the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

Skills/Competencies

  • Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field and a minimum of 8 years of related experience; or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 6 years of experience; or a PhD with 3 years experience

  • Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks, LLM observability tools, and prompt optimization techniques (e.g. GEPA)

  • Prior success in deploying impactful Machine Learning solutions to large-scale production systems, while partnering across teams

  • Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms

  • Sense of ownership and accountability as a key contributor in the technical and product domains

  • Knowledge and practical experience working on Deep Learning Libraries (like Torch, Tensorflow, etc.)

  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English, effective with technical and business audiences

Salary Range Transparency

Tier 1 - United States of America 163,000 - 245,000 USD per year

Tier 2 - United States of America 182,000 - 272,000 USD per year

Tier 3 - United States of America 199,000 - 299,000 USD per year

Tier 4 - United States of America N/A

Tier 5 - United States of America 227,000 - 341,000 USD per year

Salary Range Disclaimer

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Benefits - Health, Work/Life Harmony, & Wellbeing

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Reference ID: 47324

The deadline to apply to this position is 7/16/2026. Job postings may be extended at the hiring team’s discretion based on applicant volume.

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